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Name: remy
Gender: Male
Interests: I like traveling, playing in the outdoors (climbing, mountaineering, hiking, snowboarding... and anything along those lines), photography, film, music, cooking, eating... i like to many things. Oh yeah, I like living in Schladming, Austria too.
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4/10/2005
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| It has been a long time since I have taken the time to blog but something struck me this evening that motivated me to return to my soap box of old.
If you are anything like me the fact that America is at war crosses your mind very seldomly in the course of an average day. I think about it occasionally at best and even then, it is only when I recieve and email update from a friend who is serving in Iraq, when CNN tells me another soldies is killed, or when I go to the gas pump and wonder if the war has anything to do with the number at the bottom of my reciept. I am pathetic. Too often I am an ungrateful, undeserving, uninformed consumer of freedom. I drink in my luxurious American dream like it falls freely from the sky. I don't know the effects war... and to be honest, I think of them very little. In the last month I have probably thought more about a presidential election 2 years away, some kid from American Idol who can't sing, and a radio talk show host who got fired for something he said, than I have about the soldiers (and their families) who face uncertainty and maybe even death EVERY SINGLE DAY. For this I am deeply sorry. To my friends who are fighting in Iraq, I ask for your forgiveness for letting a single day go by without lifting you up in my thoughts and my prayers and reflecting on the great price that you are paying for the freedoms I enjoy. To the families of those who are serving abroad, forgive me for not making an effort to empathise with you as you live in the midst of uncertain times and face the grief of fallen loved ones.
A soldier recently said "America is not at war...... just her soldier's are" and it broke my heart. I felt like I was leaving our men and women alone on the battle field, sending them off to fight and then to be forgotten. Just because many of us are confused about this war, why we are there, and if there is ever going to be an end, that doesn't excuse us from supporting our troops (and their families). Please, make an effort to pray for our soldiers and their families every day. Pray for the people of Iraq and for peace in their land. When you hear about another soldier who has died in the line of duty, take a moment to think about the family who recieved the phone call they've been fearing since their boy or girl was shipped off to war. Think about every other mother and father, husband or wife, fiance, sister, brother or friend, who lives each day with a hope that their ringing phone will never bring news of their loved ones death. They have given us their sevice, their strength, their health and in many cases their lives... the least we can do is give them our prayers, our thoughts and our support. God bless our troops!
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| I particularly enjoyed point #2...
2. Don't Assume That God Voted for You
No incarnation of
the Creator of All Things is registered as a member of the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences, and nowhere on the Academy ballots is there a
category for Best Vessel Through Whom God's Blessings Might Flow. (There remains
some question, however, about whether Jesus Christ personally chooses the Grammy
winners.) Winning an Oscar does not make you a special agent of God's will or
the divine favorite over your fellow nominees -- or, for that matter, over the
lepers in your category who must suffer the enduring shame of not even being
nominated. (Didn't Jesus say that the un-nominated would inherit the earth?) Do
not demean the concept of the Almighty by implying that either you, or the
members of the Academy who voted for you, are somehow helping to implement God's
Mysterious Plan so that you all can bring about the End Times. Even if it's
true, don't. It's just bad form."
Taken from the MSN article "Your Oscar speech: How not to blow it" | | |
| Many of you have asked me what I was up to while I was in DC. Well, when I wasn't dressed in a suite chatting with politicians and hanging out at the White House I was doing THIS...
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